For months, Ontarians have been subjected to patronizing, tiresome television commercials — paid for with their taxes — featuring Suzuki lecturing clueless citizens (apparently the government’s view) on conservation.

Suzuki has been shown doing everything from conspiring with children in a tree house on how to correct the energy-wasting habits of their parents, to showing up in the basement of some guy with the mental acuity of Homer Simpson, delighted to learn how much more beer he can buy with the energy savings from getting rid of his old beer fridge.

Adams zeroes in on one ad called “Habitat” — see it at powerwise.ca/features/videos — in which Suzuki sneaks into someone’s home and caulks the windows — dripping the stuff on the floor — while describing the sleeping homeowner as an energy-wasting species known as the “common draft dodger.” Awakened by Suzuki, the groggy homeowner emerges from his bedroom and the two stare vacantly at each other, before Suzuki takes off, stopping briefly on the guy’s lawn to deliver more advice, whereupon the homeowner appears at the door and Suzuki scoots away.

Adams points out the problem with this ad — apparently the government’s idea of humour — is that the joke is on us.

That’s because in the original version of McGuinty’s Green Energy Act — applauded by the Suzuki Foundation and other environmental groups as “world class” — Suzuki, or anyone designated by a government bureaucrat, could, in fact, under the “Inspection, Enforcement and Penalties” section of the law, conduct surprise search and seizure raids on anyone’s home or business.

It is quite disturbing that groups such as the World Wildlife Fund are so willing to surrender our freedoms in order to impose their views on an unsuspecting public. (Keep in mind, whenever you purchase a plastic bag at Loblaws, you are funding this attack on your rights). Thanks Tom for keeping this issue in the public eye.

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Yeah it was good on Tom to make this video. He is really drawing the parallels between the eco-elitist and this wonky piece of legislation that in reality even without the search and auid amendment, still views the Ontario public as imbecilic, unable to understand the vagaries of forced cap-and-trade and higher energy costs. Not all of us suffer from eco-guiltiness.

Say, didn’t McGuinty’s right-hand man quit his job in the Premier’s office and take a top position in the WWF? In view of this video, that is rather disturbing. I went to a public input meeting on the Green Energy Act and was very disappointed. The individuals running the meeting could not answer specific questions, just hedged and danced around. They could offer no scientific basis for the wind turbine setbacks or name any peer-reviewed studies on health effects. Our MPP didn’t even show up,although the federal MP did. In short, they cannot discuss any specifics; everything is a proposal. The meeting was not recorded, although one fellow took some notes. One could not help but feel that the entire process was a sham, given that the government did not care enough to even send someone from the Ministry of Health or provide people with firm understanding of the energy situation. People should be paying attention to the wind production, or more accurately the lack thereof, at http://www.sygration.com. The figures tell the story.

In 2007, Gerald Butts was appointed president and CEO of WWF Canada. Gerald Butts was until then Principal Secretary to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. From what I can tell, this is about the time that McGuinty started to put significant cash into enviro organizations. One example is the Ontario Community Power Fund, which got $3 million that year.